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Truman and the Bomb, a Documentary History
Recommended Readings

Edited by Robert H. Ferrell


  1. Barton J. Bernstein, "The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered," Foreign Affairs, vol.77 (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 135-152
  2. Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light (New York: Pantheon, 1985)
  3. McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival (New York: Random House, 1988)
  4. Robert J. C. Butow, Japan's Decision to Surrender (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1954)
  5. Gavan Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese (New York: Morrow, 1994)
  6. Edward I. Drea, MacArthur's ULTRA (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992)
  7. Herbert Feis, The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (rev. ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960)
  8. Marc S. Galliccino, "After Nagasaki: General Marshall's Plan for the Use of
  9. Tactical Nuclear Weapons," Prologue, vol.24 (winter 1991), 396404
  10. Gregg Herken, The Winning Weapon (New York: Knopf, 1980)
  11. Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson, Jr., A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, vol.1 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962)
  12. David MacIsaac, Strategic Bombing in World War Two (New York: Garland, 1976)
  13. Robert J. Maddox, Weapons for Victory (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995)
  14. Robert P. Newman, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995)
  15. Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986)
  16. Martin I. Sherwin, A World Destroyed (New York: Knopf, 1975)
  17. Leon V. Sigal, Fighting to a Finish (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988)
  18. John Ray Skates, The Invasion of Japan (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994)
  19. Henry L. Stimson, "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb," Harper's, vol.194 (Feb.1947), 97-107
  20. Ferenc M. Szasz, The Day the Sun Rose Twice (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984)
  21. Stewart Udall, The Myths of August (New York: Pantheon, 1994)
  22. I. Samuel Walker, "The Decision to Use the Bomb: A Historiographical Update," Diplomatic History, vol.14 (1990), 97-114

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